This is a newish (written in Russian in 2015, but translated to English in 2019) long novel (550 pages) by the novelist Ludmila Ulitskaya, made probably most famous with her previous long novel, The Big Green Tent. That novel was about the various exiles and resistance movements to the Soviet government, focusing mainly on stories related to samzdat, the smuggling of illegal texts like Nabokov’s Invitation to a Beheading, Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago, and Bulgakov’s The Master and the Margarita. This novel is similar in a lot of ways, […]